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Stricken

By Marcia Colette

Hunting Club, Book 3

Publisher: Purple Sword Publications, LLC

Release Date: May 5, 2015

Genre: Paranormal/Urban Fantasy

Length: 68,307
Words (Approximately 258 Pages)

ISBN: 978-1511790796

ASIN: B00X6ZXNJG

BLURB:

Personal tragedy convinces
half-werewolf Alexa York to get away to the town of McCormick, Pennsylvania
where she’s charged with protecting Dr. Aiden Joss, physician to the
supernatural community. Not only does she need the money, she needs the
distraction. Unfortunately, she gets it in spades when Joss’s personal issues
and a myriad of dangerously sick patients make her new job nearly impossible.

A mysterious disease is
running its way through the New York Order of the Amazons and leaving bodies in
its wake. The same warrior who had chosen her clan over Joss has asked for his
help. Even though the disease is real, Alexa has reason to believe his ex’s
sincerity is not.

Given the other numerous
problems she has to deal with that are outside of her job description, Dr. Joss
might be the biggest threat to his own safety. But, protecting him comes first.
That’s difficult to do when his efforts to find an antidote put everyone in his
remote clinic in danger, including Alexa.

I
sure hoped Dane had told me everything I needed to know about this so-called
mission. I would hate to learn something the hard—painful—way. Though that
would never be his intention, I also knew his idea of what information was
important to know was different from mine.

Had
it not been for Wesley Dane, a full-blooded werewolf friend of my family, I
wouldn’t be here to play bodyguard for one of his closest friends. It wasn’t
the thousand dollars a day, tax-free money for my services that brought me
here. I needed the distraction more than anything.

“So,
how much do you know about me?” After snuggling into a thick, warm robe I found
hanging on a hook, I dried off my hair with a towel and opened the bathroom
door.

Sammy
was still there, though keeping his distance by waiting in the hall. I thought
it was weird, but whatever, seeing as this was more his house than mine.
“Enough, he replied. “You’re half-werewolf, which is extremely rare. You’re
also married, which means either your husband, who’s a full-blood, or Dane is
going to tear Dr. Joss apart if anything bad happens to you. Although, that
sort of defeats the purpose of you being the doctor’s bodyguard.” He
half-smiled.

Bestselling author Marcia
Colette didn’t discover her love for reading until her late teens when she
started reading John Saul and progressed to works by Bentley Little, Stephen
King and Laurell K. Hamilton. Her reading tastes convinced her to write
paranormals where curses cause people to shift into spiders, psychotic and
telekinetic mothers are locked away in attics, and murderous doppelgangers are
on a rampage. Let's not forget about the hunky werecheetah coalitions who live
throughout North Carolina. As long as she can make it believable, that's all
that matters.

Born and raised in upstate
New York, Marcia now lives in North Carolina with her mom and beautiful
daughter. They’re not raising zombies in the backyard. There aren’t any
hellhounds living in the den, only a rabbit and a cockatiel. So where she gets
her ideas is as much a mystery to her as anyone else.

The best place to find
her--when she's not stirring up trouble--is on her blog where she loves
connecting with readers.

A
cross between a paranormal mystery and an urban fantasy thriller, Stricken by
Marcia
Colette is the third book featuring Alexa Wells aka Alexa York, a
werewolf/human hybrid. While an already
well developed character, with an obviously interesting backstory, I found
Alexa Wells likeable, colorful and flawed. Living in a world where the “supernatural”
or “paranormal” are still hiding in the dark, and hunters exist to exterminate
those who make the mistake of possibly exposing their existence, Alexa is more than
she first appears.

Ms.
Colette
does a good job introducing us to Alexa, and her “pure” werewolf husband, Matt
York. While the story focuses on Alexa
while she and Matt are taking some “time apart”, the romance and love between
Alexa and Matt is definitely important to the story and how Alexa views herself
and what she does. Especially since Matt
knows nothing of her secret life as an assassin who hunts down rogue
wolves. Tasked with keeping a doctor to
the supernatural safe, who she doesn’t know and isn’t sure she trusts Alexa
finds herself dealing with broken hearts, deadly diseases, and a boss who is
his own worst enemy.

The
secondary characters are also interesting and well developed an I especially
enjoyed getting to know Dr. Aidan Joss, Alexa’s temporary boss and a supernatural
she can’t identify at first. Snarky
dialogue, a minor power struggle and a common tragedy pull them into working together
against Alexa’s best judgement. I also
enjoyed the people in Dr. Joss’s employ and getting to meet the “Amazonian’
women. The
mystery of the disease, and whether it will stick to a geographic and supernatural
type, is well developed and it was interesting watching Dr. Joss and Alexa
dealing with the various issues the disease prevented.

Will
Alexa be able to keep Dr. Joss safe long enough for him to develop a cure for
this new disease attacking the supernatural world? Will Alexa be able to deal with her personal
issues and be able to get back together with the werewolf she loves? And will Matt’s pack finally accept Alexa for
who she is? You’ll have to read Stricken
to find out. I enjoyed this action
packed story and plan to read the first two books in the series to get Alexa’s
whole backstory.

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